Objects We Love: Royal Pen Case with Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar enthroned

Take a break and get your daily art fix with Simon Rettig, Assistant Curator of Islamic Art. Listen to Simon on how the real and the ideal coalesce in the pictorial program of this nineteenth-century Persian pen case.

Learn more about the artwork on our website: https://asia.si.edu/object/S2014.17.6...

Explore highlights of past exhibition "The Prince and the Shah: Royal Portraits from Qajar Iran": https://asia.si.edu/exhibition/exhibi...